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Have you ever wondered about the nature of time? What causes the divide between past, present and future? What causes time to flow – is this only an illusion in our minds? Have you ever had an intuition of an event coming in the near future? Is it possible that information about a future event, unknowable through inference alone, could be obtained before the event actually occurs?

The Theoretical and Applied NeuroCausality Laboratory (TANC Lab) is a research lab that merges theoretical physics and experimental psychology to help answer these questions. Our goal in the lab is to design rigorous experimental protocols to test whether unconscious knowledge of future information can be detected through behavior and physiology (e.g., EEG, pupil size). The ultimate aim is the development of software and technology that use these unconscious signals to predict meaningful real world events. For a summary of these experiments clickhere. For an overview of our research plan, please see our article published in Frontiers in Psychology, “Future directions in precognition research“.

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TANC Lab was originally a 501c3 tax-exempt organization. It is now a research center of the University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences after the laboratory was gifted to the university. TANC Lab is almost entirely supported via private donations and grants from private foundations. If you would like to support our research, please donate to the UCSB Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences with instructions that the donation be used for TANC Lab.

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Replication of the Groningen Face Experiment While we analyze results from the first experiment (light/sound stimuli), we are preparing one of our next projects: a replication of a highly successful EEG presentiment experiment done at University of Groningen (led by Prof. Jacob Jolij and Prof. Dick Bierman). In their experiment a series of static noise...

Quick update on our experiment: We are nearing completion of our pilot tests and equipment upgrades. We will begin our first formal experiment soon (likely just a few weeks away!). The follow figures are examples of raw EEG data taken from four occipital (back of the head) electrodes and the digital channel, which records an...

Sharon Su Hello! My name is Sharon Su, and I am extremely excited to be an intern in the TANC lab. My interest in neuroscience stems from a childhood encounter in my aunt’s restaurant. As an obnoxious and curious child, I would often bother customers while they were eating and press them for information about...

TANC Lab has acquired the equipment needed for its first experiment on measuring unconscious precognition via EEG. The system is currently being programmed before the first pilot tests are run. It hopefully won’t be so long before the first data is taken! In the meantime, here is a photo tour of TANC Lab: Sound...

Here we have a guest blog from Michael Duggan who is one of the authors of the meta-analysis of replications of Daryl Bem’s controversial retroactive facilitation experiments http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2423692, and has a long term interest in serious psi research. He is classically trained in the sciences (Ph.D Catalytic chemistry), b